Whats the single best show youve ever been to?

[DaneTheTrain]

I dont know about you guys but the best show I've ever been to was Rufio with Count the Stars, maybe because there were only like 50 people there in an awesome venue, but probally just because both bands just kick ass. And the single best performance I think I've ever seen must had been SoCo performing Konstantine. What about you guys, whats the best show youve ever been too? What made it so good? Whats the single best performance youve ever seen? Ide like to know so that I and others can make an extra effort to see these bands.

[Alk3DCStars71]

Best show I've ever been to: Green Day w/ The Living End, Pheonix Plaza (Pontiac, MI), 7/2/01. I had never been to a Green Day show, and I figured that it wouldn't be too bad (It was only the second show I had ever been to), and I ended up getting beat up in the pits. They have some hardcore fans, I couldn't believe that it could get that violent. Living End was good, too. That night was full of drinking, moshing, crowd surfing, and debauchery.... I'm surprised that I even remember any of it at all.

[spinlight]

brand new at warped. 1/2 an hour long and still owned. as always.

[Highway Donkey]

Thursday , One Line Drawing.

[YourBestBet]

Hmmm possibly The Used, Taking Back Sunday, and The Blood Brothers. That was a good show. Coheed and Cambria, onelinedrawing, and Hopesfall was another great one. Thursday, Cursive, and From Autumn To Ashes is another possibility. I don't know, I've been to a lot of great shows.

Best performance, hands down, was onelinedrawing back in March. Jonah's guitar broke, so he just stood there and sang. No music, nothing. Just him and the mic. He is one of the only people that can pull that off without fucking up. Then after the show, he played several more songs for some kids that wanted to listen. We were all huddled together in a corner of the venue and he played.

[ISuckYoungBlood]

Best show would have to be Taking Back Sunday, Midtown, and Armor for sleep at birch hill sometimes in september 2002. It was tottaly sick so small and so crazy. Best song played live was deffinately like some guy said earlier Konstatine by Something Corporate = 9 minutes+ of greatness.

[SockMonkeyRiot]

Dropkick Murphys/Roger Miret & The Disasters/Discipline - March 15th, 2003 at Avalon in Boston.

Dropkick Murphys are amazing live, especially during there hometown St. Patty's shows.

[LesJarflys]

when i saw something corporate, they were pretty good

[**michelleV**]

Originally posted by LesJarflys
when i saw something corporate, they were pretty good Something Corporate SUCKED at warped tour.

[xmyvillainsgilx]

further seems forever with the movielife at the social orlando florida (6.31.03) was a pretty great show. possibly the best ive ever been to. i was screaming every word along with jason and all of fsf were really into it. they closed with new years project which is one of my favorite songs ever. so yeah that was my favorite show and new years project was my favorite performance. new years was so great live it was my third time seeing them but i had never heard that one live, it was amazing. such a moving song. and its so much better when performed right in front of you.

[punkbassist]

warped tour 03' in virginia starting line was amazing and so was story of the year

[LuckyToBe Alive]

i believe i can sum up the greatest show ever in three letters



A W.K.

[LuckyToBe Alive]

Reggie And The Full Effect Last Night was the best show also.... They dressed up. it was cool

[xAlexisonfirex]

Thrice/Hot Water Music/Coheed And Cambria/Time In Malta

Alexisonfire/Taken/Between The Buried And Me/It Dies Today/Concubine/Animosity/The Final Burden

Saves The Day/Thursday/Hey Mercedes

[brandnewkales]

Originally posted by LuckyToBe Alive
i believe i can sum up the greatest show ever in three letters



A W.K.

YESSSS! THANK YOU!

[LoserFreak]

either Reel Big Fish , Sugarcult and The Starting Line
- that was pretty awesome because i had heard all the bands properly. or Less Than Jake , Allister , Teen Idols and The Pietasters.

[Sped]

The best show i ever went to was definately the Civic tour! it was great! (event thou i was sick for 2 weeks after that! lol) :cool:

[punkbassist]

Originally posted by Sped
The best show i ever went to was definately the Civic tour! it was great! (event thou i was sick for 2 weeks after that! lol) :cool:


go away......and never come back

[tbshustler]

The best show i ever went to was taking back sunday, boxcar racer and finch @ cox arena. tbs put on an amazing show. on the best performance ever, i would have to agree with the first post. something corporate, konstantine, hands down, best performance. i think i came in my pants when they opened with walking by.

[Startinglinekid]

best show ive been to was Warped tour 03 in DC. Thrice, Glassjaw,The Starting Line, Story of the year, yellowcard, Dropkick Murphys, Brand New, Mest, Bleed The Dream, Pennywise, RANcid, and the Used, i hate All American RETARDS and the ataris that was the only down part...listing to them

[Startinglinekid]

Originally posted by Sped
The best show i ever went to was definately the Civic tour! it was great! (event thou i was sick for 2 weeks after that! lol)
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yes do get away from this site and never return....we dont take kinda like to ppl like you

[Sumblinksk8er]

I would have to say. Either Blink 182, New Found Glory, Sum 41. Social distortion was pretty sick also. But blink NFG and Sum 41 are all favorite bands of mine. Sum 41 with no use for a name was sick also

[Shatter590]

Ataris/Sugarcult/Autopilot Off/Rufio @ Irving Plaza last november.

Flogging Molly/Andrew WK/Allister/Lost City Angels rocked too

[JHboxer]

in 2001 for 10 bucks I got to see in order:

Sum 41, Killing Heidi, Good Charlotte, Fenix TX, and MXPX!

I really liked that show, and it really got me hooked on Good Charlotte! I had seen MXPX a year before that at a huge concert, and since then I have been a fan.

Looking back, it was really cool to see those bands before they got huge (look at Good Charlotte today)

[Lueda Alia]

The AFI show i went to this summer....

[LessThanJade]

Yellowcard, Further Seems Forever, The Juliana Theory, & The Ataris

[mirtizzle]

either a static lullaby, the early november, and brand new in may, when no one really listened to brand new and middle school girls didn't bumrush the stage, and we all happily watched from a comfortable distance, in our cozy little venue, jesse lacey lick his guitar...

or the black keyes, dashboard, and beck, because hell, the black keyes were freaking cool, dashboard was just beautiful, and beck is the most amazing live performer i have ever seen in my life.

[traindriver]

saves the day hey mercedes thursday
at lupos in RI
hey mercedes sucks but other than that awesome
it was right when thursday was blowing the fuck up...they played 7 songs and completely blew the roof off...saves the day was unbelievable as well ...that show and a piebald headlining show at the palladium in worcester where thursday completely showed them up and coulda come close to selling out the show themselves...good stuff

[WarpedRufioPunk]

The Rufio set at Warped Tour was insanely awsome, better than I would've ever expected. Best show of the day in my opinion, the crowd was really amped up and had a lot to do with the greatness of the whole thing.

L8er

[quickSXTneon]

SoCo, Julianna Theory, Vendetta Red, Red west was amazing. Opening w/Konstantine was fantastic. It was so beautiftul 400 person venue 18+show. It was great. I was right up front and no barriers next to the stage it was excellent.

Other Good Shows:
TBS, Recover, MCR, FATA
Brand New@warped(all acoustic) First time they played 70x7 acoustically 8/04/03 I'll never forget it
Rufio@warped 6/28/03 (their first warped date ever)
Matcbox Romance@warped
Blink, NFG, ALK3
GC, SoCo, Saving Face

Worst Performance
GC@Civic Tour
GC/hoobastank

[ALLbUtNoThIng03]

Story Of The Year & Saosin....they rocked the fuck out each band played for like 40 minutes.....although i think seeing the Used also kicked ass

[Common Man]

seeing the used and the movielife together. even though i'm not the biggest used fan, they put on an incredible live show.

[shut.the.door]

I'm gonna go with the Brand New/Movielife show at the Troc in Philly sometime in 2002.

There was girl that was about 8 years old crowd surfing and rocking out to Brand New. She wasnt all screams and giggles either. The entire crowd supported this one little girl (she was the only "little girl" there). After the BN set, Jesse came out from backstage just to meet this chick because she caught his attention from the stage. Both bands rocked so hard it wasnt even funny. The Troc is a great venue as well.

[simon_punk]

Reel Big Fish, Goldfinger, Zebrahead, Homegrown and Rx Bandits at Hard Rock Live Florida while on holiday in 2000 or something was pretty damn amazing. So were:
Deconstruction 2002 (Lagwagon, Midtown, The Movielife, Flogging Molly, Mad Caddies etc.) - London Finsbury Park
Reading 2003 (Less Than Jake, Pennywise, Lagwagon, The Movielife, Thrice, The Ataris etc.)
Lightyear, Captain Everything, Chief Libido - Northampton Racehorse - 2002
A, Goldfinger, Voodoo Glow Skulls - Sheffield Octagon - 2002

No Use For A Name, Bigwig and Appease in late October should be brilliant too though, and Belvedere in January :D

[Dressed To Kill]

Definately Warped Tour '03. The Starting Line, Glassjaw, Never Heard Of It, The Arrogant Sons Of Bitches, Rancid, Brand New, TAKING BACK SUNDAY...it was all so amazing. Plus, I got to meet Kenny and Mike from The Starting Line, which also kicked ass. I think I freaked out Kenny a little, but he'll live. Definately one of the best days of my life. Also, Surf and Skate Festival was awesome. I got to see The Starting Line do an acoustic set for their upcoming EP, and it was the only time they were ever going to do that. It was quite amazing, even though we were in the back, which sucked. But I also got to see Bouncing Souls, Alkaline Trio, Reel Big Fish, The Early November (I got to meet them), and Midtown.

[locochild13]

Arial arial

I think the best show I ever went to was this big thing in Vegas called Red White N' Boom on the 4th of July when a bunch of bands come over and perform for only $3.

I saw The Vandals, Yellowcard, Happy Campers, Divit, Ozma and a bunch of other bands. It was awesome.

[GAD_guy]

the best show i have ever been to happened a couple weeks ago in louisville. the bands were straylight run, christiansen, and jamsionparker. there were like 20-30 kids there and john said "this show reminds me of those basement hardcore shows in long island back in the day, awesome." jamsionparker made me a fan when before i was skeptical, and on only their 6th day playing as a full band. straylight run was absolutely amazing and made me lvoe them even mroe than i already did.

[mmcfa18089]

311. ( even though they have nothing to do with this website what so ever. ) they put on the BEST shows.) but Ataris are a close second. :p

[blackemostar]

damone/further seems forever/julianna theory/ataris
april 19, 2003
deep ellum live, dallas, texas

best shows of my life.
i bite some guy during damone.
i braved a mosh pit during further seems forever.
i got crushed by the crowd during julianna theory.
and i was right up front for the ataris.

personal note - concert was a week after i got dumped for choosing to go to college away from my boyfriend. and the show was what would have been our 8 month anniversary. (oh, sob, j/k) there's nothing that will help you get over a guy quicker then a good emo concert. and getting kicked in the head by a crowd surfer. wearing big purple sketchers, lol. i had a bruise there for days. it was all puss and purple and crusty blood, lol.
overshare.
i heart dallas concerts.

[Shellular]

My best show ever was probably The Used w/ STUN Vaux and Co&Ca. Before the show I got to meet them, and get a whole shit loada crap signed, so that added to the greatness. Then I got right up to the front during the show. Bert mooned us! That was great. The only thing was there was soooooooo many people singing over him you couldn't hear it very well. STUN was just amazing as they always are, I don't really remember Vaux I was still REALLYY stoned when they played. Coheed was good until they all the sudden had to play for an extra 20 minutes because the used was not ready yet. So they just stood there and played some shit w/ no words and people were yelling and throwing things at them. :( But all in all, excellent show!

[Vinnie's girl]

LTJ were amazing when they played the London Astoria, and Allister were so cool, I ended up missing most of SoCo's set cos i was sat at the bar with Kyle and Scottie, they r so cool, and Kyle has agreed to marry me, lol!
But the best show I've been to has to be Alkaline Trio at the Astoria.... Matt's voice blew me away, they are incredible.
I was meant to be seeing the Movielife when they support Funeral For A Friend, but they have split.... guess that's my dream ruined. :(
New Found Glory was also amazing, at the Shepherd's Bush Empire, pity some dumbass girl ruined half of it by shouting out 'I love you Jordan' during the one minute silence in memory of September 11th (the gig was on Sept 11th the year after) and that really pissed Jordan off.
And I have to mention Simple Plan, I was right under Seb's nose and got one of his picks, then got to meet the whole band afterwards. They are so hot, I'm sorry! And contrary to popular belief, Jeff is not ugly, he has a beautiful face, close up!
xBETHANx

[rockerhud]

I've been to A LOT of shows in my life for a LOT of punk and rock bands and the 3 best shows I've ever seen were STUN on warped tour, STUN with the Used in L.A. and Queens of the Stone Age at Lollapalooza.

SO you can see, two of the top three are S.T.U.N. cuz they put on THE BEST live show i've EVER seen. They're AWESOME!

http://www2.fanscape.com/stun/ecard.asp

[xnotedgex]

Sick of It All, Shai Hulud. StretchArmstrong, Most Precious Blood... that was fuckin powerful show...solidified, in my mind, shai hulud as the greatest hardcore band ever

Kind of Like Spitting...last tour before he started playing with a full band...truly amazing..played a lot of phil ochs covers, that was fuckin amazing

Hot Water Music, Further Seems Forever @thunderdome (100 person venue, just a concrete room in tallahasee)...that was amazing...i dont think ive ever felt a crowd that connected before

ive been too many shows to list all my favs...hot water music, thrice,against me, coheed and cambria in gainesville...another amazing experience

every hometown show evergreen terrace ever plays

bright eyes and m ward

and im sure death cab for cutie and the sounds, both in the same week, will probably be added to my list

[takingbackrufio]

AFI last night in Winnipeg.

Whoever's been to one of their concerts has to agree.

AutoPilot Off and Poison the Well were there too for the first time for this tour and for the first time with AFI ever. AutoPilot Off rocked, Poison the Well is metal so I didn't like them, but those 2 bands only played for like half an hour, then AFI came on and played for like 2 hours or more.

I've been to Warped Tour b4 too, it was awesome but AFI was better cuz they played for like 2 hours or more. Unbelievable band live, if you ever get a chance check em out.

[YearsGoneBy]

thursday, thrice and co&ca will be my alltime show

[ponytailbandit]

AFI was absolutly amazing live, Best show i've ever been to was AFI, and every time i see the used play, it is always so good, both those bands are really good live

[.Along4theride.]

best show was plea for peace a couple years back......lawerance arms, common rider(they blew ass), cursive, poison the well, and then thursday came on and gave the crowd a musical orgasm.

brand new,senses fail,moneen, and the beautiful mistake was good even tho the opening band blew the closer away....moneen rocks!!

the concert ive been waiting for about 6months now is the coheed, thrice, THURSDAY show. that should be one of the best concerts ever.

[velpo]

last night.. halloween, 2003.

hollywood, ca - the palladium

coheed / thrice / thursday

wow.

this was simply...

amazing.

[xJeremyx]

great shows:

the second and third days at Hellfest which had great preformances by norma jean, every time i die, skycamefalling, thursday, hopesfall, scarlet, champion, alexisonfire, terror, remembering never, dillinger escape plan, the movielife, and more.

thursday-engine down-armor for sleep-poison the well (when they didnt suck)

falls under april's last show ever (RVA screamo will live on forever) at membrane house with vindication and light the fuse and run

every time i die-down to nothing-give up the ghost

name taken-rudiger-crosstown rivals-running late

if northstar comes to your town, go see them because they put on an amazing show for any sized crowd and are passionate as hell.

garth brooks when i was 6.

onelinedrawing is amazing live.

cant stand ska, but if thats your bag, the pietasters and murphys kids put on a great show.

a static lullaby are asses...avoid them live.

[xnotedgex]

death cab for cutie and mates of state...2 nights ago...just became my new fav of all time...death cab played for 2 hours!!!!! so amazing

[xprizefightx4]

senses fail/midtown/movielife...amazing show, senses fail is simply incredible live..why do they always open up first though?? ridiculous...i always miss one or two songs of there set cause it takes forever to get into places

[chaosandlove]

Thrice,thursday,and coheed.
hands down.
it was such an amazing show.
and what a line up.
it was at my favorite venue,too.
seattle represent.'tis all.

[X Out The Eyes]

Tsunami Bomb
Bouncing Souls
Strike Anywhere

on Halloween this year at the Stone Pony in NJ.

[OkayIBeliveYou]

ataris @ FAU in boca last month, i guess b/c i went w/ a group of alot of people and ataris were awesome live, i missed 1/2 of vendetta b/c i got their late, but i had already seen them w/ dashboard.

last night at soco was awesome except i didnt really like the venu but they rocked the place everyone was into it

[x BlindVanity x]

i've only been to one real concert. i wood go to so many more but my mom usually doesnt want me to go. it was a sum41 concert at the webster theatre in CT. with the starting line, no use for a name, and authority zero. it was a mad cool concert. sum 41 is a great band. plus it was my first concert which made it even better.
and i went crowd surfing for like 5 seconds! 5 seconds isnt long but it still felt awsome.. then i got dropped. but the whole night was a great time. and then when i left the silenced hurt. my ears were all ringin. but sooo much fun!

[boysnightbled]

best shows i have attended...

-glassjaw/poison the well/recover/vex red

glassjaw owned. ptw ruled. recover killed it. vex red sucked ass.

-saves the day/tbs/moneen

saves the day is an awesome band with a great live show. i've seen tbs 3 times before but this was the first time with the new line up and they were pretty good. moneen was awesome with tons of energy.

-a static lullaby/my chemical romance/vaux

vaux is one of the best up and coming bands out there with an original sound and a fucking great performance. mcr and static lullaby played really well also.

and last but not least....

REGGIE!!!!!/a static lullaby/midtown/motion city soundtrack

mcs was rad. asl was suck ass this time due to joe being really drunk and in a bad mood. midtown was mediocre. BUT REGGIE WAS FUCKING INCREDIBLE...non stop fun during reggies set

[NEWckyDIREXION]

Best 3 shows I've been to....

Yellowcard/Fall Out Boy/Matchbook Romance

CKY/Atreyu

Kill Your Idols/The Comeback Kid

All so goooooood....during Atreyu people were seriously getting f'd up....so many people were carried out because they couldn't walk out....but the other two were also reallllllly good....

[jimmiep]

probably my chemical romance, senses, fail, a static lullaby, vaux, and murder by death at Krome last halloween.

[alaskanpunker]

A tie between warped 2003 in San Francisco.(Tsunami Bomb, Matchbook Romance, Mad Caddies, The Unseen, The Ataris, Less Than Jake, and Rancid). This was my first and only warped show and it was truly amazing

Moneen, Senses Fail, The Beautiful Mistake, and Brand New 7/11/03, sold out show at Slim's. All the bands were amazing. Senses blew everyone away though. Make sure that you see them if you have a chance.

[Xero Scab]

hmmm... well I must say that the HRC/Brand New/Eisley concert kicked ass (excluding Eisley lol) but umm truthfully my most favorite concert was GC/NFG/MxPx/HRC I loved all 4 bands live, been i fan off all of them for a long time (im pissed that GC and NFG made it real big cuz no we got a bunch of girls coming to the concerts where high heels)

[fowruok]

Skate and Surf this year Day 2 was amazing. But what can you expect from a day with Thursday, Taking Back Sunday, Finch, Catch22, From Autumn to Ashes, Folly, Death By Stereo, Highschool Football Heroes, One True Thing, Authority Zero, Stretch Armstrong, Bane and the Reunion Show. For a fairly low price with good sound, this was awesome.

[punkrockjunky32]

best show i have been to or i guess i should say shows were Goodcharlotte with eve6 and goldfinger it was very awesome. and Blink-182 last year with the flaming fuck sign i went 3 times they were great and also greenday at the warped tour they had probably the best stage performance ive ever seen:approve:

[EverSoSw33t]

definitely early november/count the stars/hidden in plain view at the bottom lounge. the stage area was so small and intimate it felt like we were at a garage show. hell id let ace into my garage anyday.

[earlynovemberX]

damien rice. hands down amazing.

[deadwombat]

The Hope Conspiracy. They were an opening act for Boy Sets Fire and really stole the show, it was incredible. Runner up goes to Thursday though, damn, I'd say they are better live than on cd.

[tomisrad182]

bcoz i live in perth.. we dun get many good ppls coming here..
but in my opinion my favouritist show would have been the Big Day Out.. which is this festival.. i cant really remember which year it was like 2001 or 2000 but yeahh it was the raddest!! especially wen i blink played
another good show was when i saw the ataris play here in perth and i snuck around the back and met kris in his little mini van and he was scoffin on a sandwhich and eatin dixie drumstick and he signed my shirt... YAY
:crazy: mmmkay!! dats my thinkin
cyaz
luv mills
PS I AM SOOO BOREDD..
hey sum1 talk to me here!I AM SOOO BOREDD..

[tomisrad182]

ooo i thought of another show i really liked!!
well it hasnt happened yet.. but i know its going to be fuckin awesome!!
the rock=it festival..wher BLINK 182 is headlining.. well obviously to me its gonna be fuckin rad coz they r my fav band...

Last years rockit was good too.. but no where near as good as this years will be!!

STILL BORED

[tomisrad182]

killing time

[Lucky Star]

The best show Ive ever been to was the Boucning Souls 9/20/03 record release show at the Electric Factory. I had a photo pass and ended up backstage, then onstage for the Casualties performance, and most of the Souls performance. greatest day of my life.
And prolly all three days of Skate and Surf last year coming in at a close second

[tomisrad182]

ooo wow :coool: :laugh: :smartass: hehe

mmkay im dun wit these smileys already.. bored

[Iluvnerds1009]

I think the best show ive been to so far was Brand New when they came to the Troc. I dunno, i think their stage performace was great.....

[hayz1887]

Id say story of the year with saosin
i mean story of the year is amazing live... they dont disapoint
and saosin is absolutly crazy live there singer jumped off the stage into the pit at the fireside droped his mic in the pit but just continued to have a hell of a time

[yourprivateeye]

the best show ive ever seen consisted of: the hostage, the banner, vaux, a static lullaby, senses fail, and my chemical romance...it was a hell of a show....all the bands were amazing, espeically mcr...one of the best live shows around...

[ember]

I would have to say the best show I have ever had the pleasure to witness was Acceptance and mewithoutYou. There was only about 30 people there and it was in a basement revenue. It was one of those shows where it really makes you appreciate life because it can be so beautiful. mewithoutYou was so amazing and theyre my favorite band. If you haven't heard them I suggest you check them out NOW! But anyways...that was the first and only show that I accually shed a tear. It was just that damn good.